Romanian Teachers To Receive Unpaid Wage Rights Starting 2012 – Education Min

Funeriu highlighted court rulings will be observed.

Prime Minister Emil Boc said recently the salary rights won by teachers in court will be paid in installments starting 2012. The value and payment schedule will be determined once all court rulings are tallied.

Romania’s High Court of Justice recently upheld an appeal filed by the prosecutor general concerning Law 221/2008 on increasing wages in the education sector, so teachers will be paid the difference between salary rights set by the law and the real wages they received until December 31, 2009.

The Government drew up a bill and plans to freeze teachers’ salaries this year, capping them at the level in January. According to the bill, granting new salary rights through collective or individual work contracts is forbidden and breaching this norm will represent a criminal offence.

People close to the matter told MEDIAFAX Thursday the Government decided to begin the steps towards seeking a vote of confidence in Parliament for the bill and for the Social Dialog Code.

Finance Ministry state secretary Gheorghe Gherghina said Thursday that increasing teachers’ salaries according to court decisions might entail sacking about 100,000 public sector employees in order to keep the public sector salary fund unchanged without hiking taxes.